There are only two solutions to the problems in this world:
1. Coming to Jesus.
2. Getting to know him.
All of the challenges in life can be solved by these two solutions. Our calling is to learn to become just like our Master. This is the disciple's plea: to follow in his master's footsteps and to live to serve his master. The closer we walk with him, the more distinct we shall be from the world. He has called us to become salt and light. He came into the world but the world did not recognize him. Jesus said that I must leave so that the Holy Spirit shall come. The Holy Spirit shall be with you, to comfort you and to abide within you. You teach what you know but you reproduce who you are. If a seed falls to the ground and dies, only then can it reproduce the fruit whose seed is within itself. God has called us through Jesus Christ to sow the seed of the Word of God.
The circumstances and situations of this world become progressively worse. The world calls evil good, and good evil. Jesus Christ is the only solution to the evils of this world. There is no righteousness except in Christ. God gives us a moment by moment choice to walk according to righteousness with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ or walk according to the evil of the powers of the darkness of this world. The more abundant life is to walk according to God's divine appointment, to choose his path: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which he has foreordained that we should walk in it.
Where is your identity? Is it the man in the mirror... the man of the flesh? For we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of The Lord are changed from glory (of the flesh) to glory (of the spirit) even by the spirit of The Lord. The word of God is the mirror that reflects the real you: Christ in you the hope of glory. It's not about me, it's about him: Jesus said, "he who surrenders his life for my sake shall find it." As John the Baptist declared to his followers, "I must decrease that he might increase." In this life, death is inevitable. Therefore, in order to live, we must die to self that Christ shall live within us.
Psalm 73 is a Psalm of Asaph. God judges with equity and warns the proud to stop their boasting. God will break the influence and power of the ungodly and increase the power of the righteous. It's all according to God's divine plan... according to his time. In the world, the weeds and the tares tell the wheat to bow down. There is no justice, equity, or fairness in the world. Where is the justice of God in this world? The judgment and justice of God are in God's patient timeframe... not in man's selfish timeline for swift and immediate retribution. God's justice grinds slowly but it grinds finely. His justice is not according to our timeline, but according to his sovereign will. Our choice is to either humble ourselves according to God's will, or to allow God to humble us through trial and tribulation. For we glory in tribulation because tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
There is an appointed time in God's timeframe for God's justice. Justice is in God's hands, not ours. He's the master... he called us to humble our hearts before him. My prayer is to will and to do of his good pleasure. Thy wish is my command. To serve him is to live life more and more abundantly. The pursuit of happiness ultimately is to pursue God's delight: Delight thyself also in The Lord and he shall give the desires of thine heart.
Jesus said, in this world ye shall have tribulation. Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. This light affliction which is but for a moment worketh a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we look not at the things that are seen but at the things that are unseen, for the things that are seen are temporal, but at the things that are unseen are eternal. The robes of the flesh are filthy rags. However Jesus said that upon the new birth ye shall be clothed with power from on high. Having been born again, our true identity is Jesus Christ: I was crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me...
God called us not to become victims of the powers of darkness of this world. Rather he called his men with this charge: let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven. He called his men for such a time as this, not to be influenced by the world but to influence the world. As he is, so are we in this world...
2. Getting to know him.
All of the challenges in life can be solved by these two solutions. Our calling is to learn to become just like our Master. This is the disciple's plea: to follow in his master's footsteps and to live to serve his master. The closer we walk with him, the more distinct we shall be from the world. He has called us to become salt and light. He came into the world but the world did not recognize him. Jesus said that I must leave so that the Holy Spirit shall come. The Holy Spirit shall be with you, to comfort you and to abide within you. You teach what you know but you reproduce who you are. If a seed falls to the ground and dies, only then can it reproduce the fruit whose seed is within itself. God has called us through Jesus Christ to sow the seed of the Word of God.
The circumstances and situations of this world become progressively worse. The world calls evil good, and good evil. Jesus Christ is the only solution to the evils of this world. There is no righteousness except in Christ. God gives us a moment by moment choice to walk according to righteousness with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ or walk according to the evil of the powers of the darkness of this world. The more abundant life is to walk according to God's divine appointment, to choose his path: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works which he has foreordained that we should walk in it.
Where is your identity? Is it the man in the mirror... the man of the flesh? For we all with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of The Lord are changed from glory (of the flesh) to glory (of the spirit) even by the spirit of The Lord. The word of God is the mirror that reflects the real you: Christ in you the hope of glory. It's not about me, it's about him: Jesus said, "he who surrenders his life for my sake shall find it." As John the Baptist declared to his followers, "I must decrease that he might increase." In this life, death is inevitable. Therefore, in order to live, we must die to self that Christ shall live within us.
Psalm 73 is a Psalm of Asaph. God judges with equity and warns the proud to stop their boasting. God will break the influence and power of the ungodly and increase the power of the righteous. It's all according to God's divine plan... according to his time. In the world, the weeds and the tares tell the wheat to bow down. There is no justice, equity, or fairness in the world. Where is the justice of God in this world? The judgment and justice of God are in God's patient timeframe... not in man's selfish timeline for swift and immediate retribution. God's justice grinds slowly but it grinds finely. His justice is not according to our timeline, but according to his sovereign will. Our choice is to either humble ourselves according to God's will, or to allow God to humble us through trial and tribulation. For we glory in tribulation because tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
There is an appointed time in God's timeframe for God's justice. Justice is in God's hands, not ours. He's the master... he called us to humble our hearts before him. My prayer is to will and to do of his good pleasure. Thy wish is my command. To serve him is to live life more and more abundantly. The pursuit of happiness ultimately is to pursue God's delight: Delight thyself also in The Lord and he shall give the desires of thine heart.
Jesus said, in this world ye shall have tribulation. Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. This light affliction which is but for a moment worketh a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we look not at the things that are seen but at the things that are unseen, for the things that are seen are temporal, but at the things that are unseen are eternal. The robes of the flesh are filthy rags. However Jesus said that upon the new birth ye shall be clothed with power from on high. Having been born again, our true identity is Jesus Christ: I was crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me and the life that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me...
God called us not to become victims of the powers of darkness of this world. Rather he called his men with this charge: let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven. He called his men for such a time as this, not to be influenced by the world but to influence the world. As he is, so are we in this world...
Your Brother in Christ, Michael
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